Paul Noell and I saw and heard Cerulean Warblers this morning at the 
McKeldin Area of Patapsco State Park in the same locations as Joel 
Martin on Wednesday. We heard a frequently singing male and saw a 
female around the parking lot for the rapids overlook. This is at the 
end of the main road that curves through the park, then down the 
narrow road to the rapids overlook lot.

Then we saw a vigorously singing male where the purple "Tall Poplars" 
trail meets the white trail right by the river. The trees are a little 
thinner here than by the rapids. About  a hundred yards after the park 
entry station, park by the main bathroom, walk down the purple "Tall 
Poplars" Trail, soon taking the left, downward fork, and going about a 
quarter mile or more to get to the purple and white trail 
intersection. (There may be an entrance to the Tall Poplars Trail 
right by the park entrance, but that would set you in the wrong 
direction, I assume.) I think you could walk eastward from that the 
purple-white intersection to the Rapids area along the white trail and 
vice-versa, but I won't swear to it.

There are modest fees to enter the park which opens at 8 AM. One could 
park by Marriottsville Road and walk down along the river, but I can't 
describe that in detail. The McKeldin area is on Marriottsville Road 
about 4 miles north of I-70 or 4 miles south of Liberty Rd.

The Ceruleans seem to be at these locations most years around this 
time. They have gotten quite scarce in this general tri-county area, 
just like the Yellow-throated Warblers.

Warblers seen or heard (mostly heard) in the park today were:

N Parula
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Blk-th Blue Warbler
Blk-th Green Warbler
Cerulean Warbler
Black-&-White Warbler
American Redstart
Ovenbird
N Waterthrush
La Waterthrush
(No Yellow-throated Warbler)

There were a few Scarlet Tanagers, and my FOY (first of year, of 
course) Y-b Cuckoo, heard only today.

Incidentally, for those who may have been mystified by my previous 
posting, "The Seven Little Foys" was a 1955 Bob Hope film about 
vaudeville, which looked like it would be pretty awful when I saw the 
preview at age 8. It still looks that way.

Steve Sanford
Randallstown MD (Balto Co)
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